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<blockquote data-quote="Iron_Chef" data-source="post: 1313462" data-attributes="member: 4530">I just reread (first time since 1983) Robert Jordan's CONAN THE INVINCIBLE and CONAN THE DEFENDER (his first two Conan books). I think they're top-flight; utterly fantastic and gripping as far as the non-Howard stuff goes. IMO, with these two novels Jordan did a wonderful job of recapturing the spirit of Howard's Conan. He started to slip with his third Conan novel, but they're still decent, fun reads. I went Conan shopping at the used bookstores today and picked up Karl Edward Wagner's CONAN: THE ROAD OF KINGS and his anthology PEOPLE OF THE BLACK CIRCLE (reprints of four original Howard Conan stories from Weird Tales---before L. Sprague deCamp and Lin Carter got out their butcher's knives). How are Andrew Offut's Conan novels? BTW: The new Conan comic from Dark Horse is amazing; Issue #0 is only 25 cents; the series continues with #1 in February.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Iron_Chef, post: 1313462, member: 4530"] I just reread (first time since 1983) Robert Jordan's CONAN THE INVINCIBLE and CONAN THE DEFENDER (his first two Conan books). I think they're top-flight; utterly fantastic and gripping as far as the non-Howard stuff goes. IMO, with these two novels Jordan did a wonderful job of recapturing the spirit of Howard's Conan. He started to slip with his third Conan novel, but they're still decent, fun reads. I went Conan shopping at the used bookstores today and picked up Karl Edward Wagner's CONAN: THE ROAD OF KINGS and his anthology PEOPLE OF THE BLACK CIRCLE (reprints of four original Howard Conan stories from Weird Tales---before L. Sprague deCamp and Lin Carter got out their butcher's knives). How are Andrew Offut's Conan novels? BTW: The new Conan comic from Dark Horse is amazing; Issue #0 is only 25 cents; the series continues with #1 in February. [/QUOTE]

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